The Embryos

I hadn't anticipated how disheartening it feels to continuously watch your number of opportunities decline. Not to mention, by "opportunities" I mean the opportunities to have everything I've ever wanted and needed, a baby. The only thing missing from my life. So the highest of all the stakes.

I started with 20 eggs being retrieved and I was over the moon. But out of 20, only 9 were mature. Of 9 mature, 7 fertilized. Of 7 fertilized, I found out a week after my retrieval that 4 made it to blastocyst stage.

Then I had to continue to wait until yesterday (two more weeks) to find out how many are viable for transfer.

And the results are in!!! ..... 2 are viable for transfer!! It's been such a roller coaster but I can't believe I now have two viable little baby embryos sitting on ice ready to be implanted and grow inside of me. It's been such a scary world of unknown and waiting and just hoping I'd end up with at least one, and I did. :-)

I have my follow-up appointment in two weeks and then we will schedule the transfer.

I cannot believe it's getting so close!!!!!